Your score was a 1. What this means is that it’s not hard for you to stop eating when you feel full. In addition, you rarely experience cravings for specific foods, don’t have a problem with binging, and are not spending a particularly large portion of your life’s focus on food and weight concerns.

I want you to know two things. First, you are in good company. Research shows that one-third of the population is like you, with a score in the low range on the Susceptibility Scale. Second, you are lucky. Two-thirds of people are higher on the Susceptibility Scale and for them, food and weight can pose a huge challenge and a lifetime struggle.

Now that you know your Susceptibility Score, what can you do about it? How can you put this information to good use in your life?

I have some thoughts about that. My name is Susan Peirce Thompson. I’m a tenured psychology professor with a Ph.D. in Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and my area of expertise is in the psychology and neuroscience of eating, food addiction, and sustainable weight loss.

Over the years, as I taught my college course on the psychology of eating, it became clear to me that different people react very differently to certain foods. I’m talking about highly refined foods like cookies, ice cream, pizza, chocolate, bread, pasta, crackers, chips, and candy. In time I developed the Susceptibility Scale to capture the huge difference in people’s experience with these foods, and a Susceptibility Quiz so people could learn where they fall on the scale. Knowing where you fall on the Susceptibility Scale empowers you to better navigate the contradictory and confusing landscape of dietary and weight loss information that’s out there. Because the reality is, people are not all the same when it comes to food, and where you fall on the Susceptibility Scale has everything to do with the type of food plan or eating approach that will be most effective for you.

Given that you are a 1 on the scale, the type of program that’s going to be the most successful for you in losing weight and achieving food freedom is one that makes it easy for you to moderate your food intake. Because of your low susceptibility, you have a lot of options available to you. There’s no need for you to cut out categories of foods entirely, because their addictive pull doesn’t affect you particularly strongly, but you may want to reduce your intake of sugar and flour for maximal health. Online tracking programs and apps (Like MyFitnessPal or SparkPeople) that help you stay aware of your total caloric intake will be particularly helpful.

What we’ve covered here is a good start, but it’s just the beginning. I have so much more to share with you. A lot of it is covered in first video in the Food Freedom series, which you were directed to right after you took the quiz. If you weren’t able to finish watching it, or you’d like to see it again, you can access it here.

I’ll be sending you access to Video 2 and Video 3 in the Food Freedom series very soon. These videos are free but they will only be available for a short time, so it’s super important that you watch them right away when they are released. You don’t want to miss out!

I made these videos with love and a lot of care in order to disseminate the most current research on the psychology and neuroscience of eating and sustainable weight loss. I truly hope you enjoy them. Don’t hesitate to hit reply to any of my emails if you have questions or need help. I and my customer support and research teams are standing by waiting to help you.

Here’s to your food freedom!

With love,

Susan Peirce Thompson, Ph.D.

P.S. I want to warn you about something. While the Food Freedom videos are available, you’re going to be hearing from me a lot. I want you to know that you’re free to unsubscribe at any time. But I hope you’ll stick with me. And here’s my promise to you—at the end of the Food Freedom video series, you will know more than pretty much all of your friends, all of your family, and most likely even your doctor, nurse, local fitness expert, or favorite healthy-eating guru about the true underlying causes of the obesity epidemic and what each of us can do individually to take back our own food freedom. It’s going to be a wild ride. Welcome! I’m so glad you’re on board!

Well, if that one little number is your score on the Susceptibility Scale, then yes, it absolutely can.

Let me paint a picture for you.

Barbara Becker is 59 years old. She had a serious eating disorder in her 20’s, but recovered from that, and over time, she learned to eat wholesome, healthy foods that nourished her body.

But in her 40’s and 50’s, she was overweight, and that bothered her.

A lot.

And, she was still obsessed with food.

She listened to revered medical doctors who specialize in nutritional excellence and truly believed that if she was eating all the right foods, her body would naturally get full and tell her when it was time to stop eating.

The trouble was, it didn’t seem to work.

Not reliably anyway.

And then she learned about the Susceptibility Scale, and everything clicked into place.

She guessed that she would be a 10+ on the Scale, and sure enough, she was.

For SOME people, eating wholesome, real foods leads to natural feelings of fullness and a desire to stop eating.

But for the millions of people who are high on the Susceptibility Scale, it just doesn’t.

With this newfound information, Barbara started applying Bright Lines to her eating.

The boundaries made her feel happy and free.

And, of course, she got thin.

At 5’4, she now weighs 111 pounds.

More importantly, she doesn’t obsess about food anymore. She feels GOOD in her body. Her eating is now easy. And she’s elated to face each coming year knowing that she’s doing everything in her power to be healthy and happy.

What would it be like if everyone knew their score on the Susceptibility Scale, and we no longer fell into the trap of assuming that what works for one person will work for everyone?

Do you know your score on the Susceptibility Scale? If not, click here to take the quiz.

If you’ve taken the quiz but haven’t finished watching the video that explains what it means, you can access the video right here.

I want to be sure that you watch that video, because it’s the first in a series of three, and the second video will mean so much more to you if you’ve seen all of Video 1.

Why is it that people in America alone are spending $61 billion dollars each year trying to lose weight, and yet the percentage of our population that is overweight or obese is about to reach 70%? It’s crazy! Even one-third of triathletes are overweight!

The secret lies in the food we put in our mouth. Every body builder knows that when it’s time to get cut for a competition, it’s diet that counts.

So why is it so hard for so many people to eat the right foods and shed those excess pounds? And for those who do lose weight, why is it so hard to keep it off?

The answer is that there’s ONE HUGE MISTAKE that almost everyone is making when they try to lose weight. This one huge mistake also practically guarantees that any weight lost will be quickly regained.

In the second video of my 3-part series, I reveal what’s been blocking your attempts to lose weight and it will blow your mind.